Urinary Retention• The bladder is a balloon shaped

hollow muscle. It is designed to stretch as it fills up and contract as it empties. The bladder muscle can become so weak that it is unable to contract strongly enough to empty. Damage to the nervous system can also affect the bladders ability to contract e.g Parkinson’s disease, Multiple Sclerosis and Alzheimer’s disease.

Urinary retention is a side effect of the bladder not emptying properly. This is also known as having residual urine.

• Other causes could be insufficient urine in the bladder to enable urination caused by going to the toilet too frequently as a side effect of an over active bladder or in an attempt to control incontinence. Or a learned voiding dysfunction – for example, a fear to use the toilet or to use toilets outside the home.

Tests that your doctor or healthcare professional may recommend that you have

done• If you have residual urine

then it is important that a way is found to empty the bladder. Often this will mean using a catheter; a catheter is a thin, flexible plastic tube that is passed into the bladder through the urethra so that the urine will drain away.

Indwelling catheter

• In certain cases the catheter will be left in place so that the urine can be constantly drained into a collection bag which is worn on the leg. There are two kinds of indwelling catheter: urethral and suprapubic. A urethral catheter is inserted into the bladder through the urethra and a suprapubic catheter is inserted into the bladder through a hole in the abdomen, a few inches below the tummy button.

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